Archive for February, 2015

What an exciting novel full of life’s dilemmas intertwined with mystery and death. Lined with Silver by Roseanne Evans Wilkins is a great story about a single LDS lawyer who is asked by her sister if she can carry her babies. Nicky and her husband, who is dying of cancer, can’t have the children and Sondra steps up to the plate after a meltdown trip to DC. On the flight (more…)

Anna, I will provide an Epub, Kindle or PDF version of Flowers of Grace to a winner from the comments to this post. Don’t forget to leave your email.

Teresa, what makes you passionate about writing?

Characters make me passionate about writing. I’m an emotional person and pretty reactive, even though I’m working to curb that. I love to people watch, but not to judge hair or clothes but to watch the emotional responses that people around me have to their circumstances. People fascinate me. That’s why I read and why I write. Discovering how the characters are going to respond to their circumstances develops who they are; the emotional process that unfolds drives me to tell the story.

Nice. Do you have a writing routine?

Yes and no. My routine exists, but it changes according to what I am working on. It’s not a daily routine as much as a cyclical one. I may be in production mode on a certain book, essay or article. At those times I focus on that project full-time. But that project will also go through stages that are (more…)

Anna, thanks for your willingness to highlight Willow Springs. I love your blog, especially the great variety of authors you feature.

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Husbands. Crissa had to suppress a shudder at the thought. If I had wanted a husband, I would have stayed in Boston. Indeed, Crissa considered Willow Springs to be the nearest thing to her idea of purgatory. She certainly did not plan to stay here long.

Swedish immigrant Crissa Engleson fled Boston hoping to start a new life, unknown and unencumbered, on the American frontier. The quiet gold mining town of Willow Springs in the Utah desert seemed the perfect spot—until (more…)

Somebody knows Detective Amanda Nettles more than she cares to acknowledge. With one phone call, a faceless and genderless madman, proves he knows every dark secret Amanda has—even those she’s never uttered to a soul.

“In 13th century England, Robert Marcel chafes against the law that holds him bound as a villein on his lord’s manor. He tries to make a daring escape and is nearly caught by his cruel master, but a young girl helps him slip away. Years pass and Robert takes up trade as a minstrel. Invited to play at a banquet for the notorious Earl of Saxton, he is stunned to come face to face with the girl he’s never forgotten—now Lady Marguerite of Winbourne, betrothed to the earl. Her status as a noblewoman puts her completely out of Robert’s reach, but he knows they are meant to be together. He vows to make her his wife no matter what the cost. Lady Marguerite has often (more…)

No one knows what’s happening to her, and she’d like to keep her evolution from human to mermaid a secret, but the truth is getting harder and harder to hide. From her adoptive family, from her friends, and especially from the irresistible James Phelps.(more…)

Amelia Moore, the founder of the Moore Detective Agency, specializes in missing persons. Her cases have taken her to some very interesting places and put her in some dangerous situations, but she always solves the case. With the help of her partner, Rick Bonito, the business is flourishing.

An arrangement made when Elizabeth was just a babe ties her to someone she has never met, never spoken to, never loved. Now she desires freedom—a way to choose her own path—her own husband. The moment Elizabeth meets Patrick she knows he is her soul mate. But when you are bound to a crown how is any choice your own?

Anna received the Editor’s Choice Award from the International Library of Poetry and had her article entitled A New American Mother published by Desert Saints Magazine. Her short story entitled Amerine—Fairy Princess won an award in a League of Utah Writers contest later to be published by Kalkion Magazine. (Now it has been published as an e-book.) Other articles about family and relationship have been published frequently in the MOMS CLUBÒ of Salt Lake Valley-West. She has published 7 books in her Elf series. Her and Rodney’s love story was published by Deseret book in the anthology entitled Angels Round About compiled by July C. Olsen. Another of her articles was included in the Anthology Mother’s Message in a Bottle, edited by Tyler Hayden and published by Nimbus Publishing.

She and her husband have four children. Three princes and a princess and live in Taylorsville, Utah.

My top ten are:

10 I love to tour ruins and castles. They are so interesting and full of real stories.